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Album Review

Kristijan Krajnčan Quartet: Honey Sparks In The Dark

Read "Honey Sparks In The Dark" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
April 15, 2026

The hit of honey on tastebuds and the met gaze of a homeless man may seem like curious seeds of inspiration for an album, but Kristijan Krajnčan is no run-of-the-mill artist. A double threat as a virtuoso cellist and drummer, Krajnčan is also a filmmaker and soundtrack composer. What perhaps best defines his artistry is an organic appreciation of music that recognizes no boundaries between genres, or between past and present. For the Slovenian multi-instrumentalist, everything belongs in the great ...

Take Five With...

Take Five with Guitarist Johannes Ravn Hagmund-Hansen

by AAJ Staff
April 15, 2026

Meet Johannes Ravn Hagmund-Hansen Johannes Ravn Hagmund-Hansen is an award-winning guitarist and composer from Faaborg, Denmark, now based in Brooklyn, New York, after having completed his masters degree at the Manhattan School of Music on a scholarship. He is an in-demand player as both a bandleader and sideman, and has performed his own music at renowned venues such as Nublu, Threes Brewing, Fiction (Brooklyn), Le Baiser Sallé (Paris), Blue Note Dresden, as well as major jazz festivals such as Copenhagen ...

Album Review

Joe Magnarelli: Decidedly so

Read "Decidedly so" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
April 15, 2026

The front-line alliance of trumpeter Joe Magnarelli and trombonist Steve Davis is one of the distinguishing features of Decidedly So, Magnarelli's 2026 release in an impressive string of releases as a leader. Magnarelli and Davis interact in ways that reflect decades of experience in playing modern, straight-ahead jazz. The two brass instruments work together and respond to one another during eight tracks that include Latin-tinged hard bop, moderate and up-tempo swingers, a couple of ballads, and a brisk blues. Their ...

Radio & Podcasts

Genre jambalaya this week, exploratory jazz, third stream, straight ahead and the blues

by Hobart Taylor
April 15, 2026

Dave Adewumi, Yelena Eckimoff, Tomas Janzon, Jesse Davis and Dida Pelled. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Dave Adewumi" Is" from The Flame Beneath the Silence (Giant Step Arts) 0:11 Erica von Kleist “Picc a Peck" from Picc Pocket (Self-Produced) 05:25 Tomas Janzon “ Did I Say" from Jazz Diary (Changes) 11:02 Host Speaks 16:01 Alicia Lázaro “Los Cuatros Muleros (hope)" from There Is No End to Anything Round (Self-Produced) 17:55 Caleb Wheeler Curtis"Ritual" from Ritual (Chill Tone) 22:36 Tatyana ...

Album Review

Entre Amigos: Joyful Foundation

Read "Joyful Foundation" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 15, 2026

Joyful Foundation is a near-perfect name for the third album by Entre Amigos, wherein the Chicago-based quartet welcomes aboard one of the jazz world's rising stars, trumpeter Justin Copeland, to play--naturally--The Music of Justin Copeland on an album whose upbeat posture and sunny disposition help make it utterly charming and highly listenable. There is, of course, much more here than cheerfulness alone to digest and appreciate. For one thing, Copeland's compositions--he wrote four of the album's eight numbers--are ...

Radio & Podcasts

Peter Ehwald, Stéphane Kerecki & Tribute to Bob Rogers

by Maurice Hogue
April 15, 2026

The 2026 German Jazz Prize nominees have been announced and by chance it happens one of the woodwind nominees is featured in this episode: saxophonist Peter Ehwald, whose music has been played many times on OMJ. In this show, he's featured leading his Tee Trio recorded live at Berlin's B-Flat Club and in duet performance with the legendary drummer, Bill Elgart. As is usually the case, there are European groups making their debuts: the Ragini Trio from Belgium, pianist Pierpaolo ...

Album Review

Charles Ives: Concordance: 150 Years of Charles Ives

Read "Concordance: 150 Years of Charles Ives" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
April 15, 2026

As the archiving team at the Owsley Stanley Foundation (including the namesake's offspring) has overseen its wealth of 1500-some recordings, they have done yeoman's work to insure that the reputation of the man nicknamed 'Bear' is inextricably linked to his passion for the best possible sound he could facilitate. In that regard, the range of content that the non-profit has issued is broad enough to dispel any knee-jerk preconceptions about the vocation of the man otherwise known as mentor ...

Radio & Podcasts

Eugene McDaniels, Catherine Russell and April Varner

by Jerome Wilson
April 15, 2026

This episode features a segment on the changing music of singer-songwriter Eugene McDaniels in the 1960s. It also includes music from April Varner, Matthew Shipp, and Catherine Russell.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Allan Harris “Weary Blues" from The Poetry of Jazz--Live at Blue Llama (Live at Blue Llama) 1:00 Catherine Russell “I Just Refuse to Sing the Blues" ...

Interview

Vance Thompson's Reinvention

by Todd Steed
April 14, 2026

Vance Thompson wears a lot of impressive hats: composer, arranger, professor at the University of Tennessee, and founder of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra. His main instrument was trumpet until a medical setback forced him to reinvent himself as a vibraphonist. This transformation is documented on his new album, “Lost and Found," featuring a high caliber quintet that can do just about anything it wants, from cooking on Thompson's original compositions to brilliant takes on music from Chick Corea ...

The Jazz Life

Bob Graf: A St. Louis Tenor Voice the World Almost Missed

by Melodi Graf McCraine
April 14, 2026

There is a particular kind of musician who never quite makes it into the history books despite spending a career in the company of greatness. Bob Graf was that kind of musician--a St. Louis tenor saxophonist who played alongside Count Basie, Woody Herman, Chet Baker, Grant Green, and Gerry Mulligan, recorded albums that still sell today, and spent five decades keeping jazz alive in the city that shaped him. He died in 1981 at 54. His story deserves to be ...